Pádraig Harrington was pleased a new putting alignment lasted a full 18 holes after recording a two under par 70 on the opening day of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

The Golf Channel analyst who compared a rules violation by Tiger Woods to his own episode of cheating on a fourth-grade math test has admitted the comment was a mistake.

California teenagers who post photographs of themselves wearing too little clothing or having had too much to drink will have the legal right to erase their online indiscretions under first-of-its-kind legislation.

Tiger Woods’ agent has lashed out against Hank Haney’s book, saying his “armchair psychology” about Woods was “ridiculous” and that it was clear the former swing coach only cares about self-promotion.

Experts repeatedly told jurors that Michael Jackson’s doctor acted with “gross negligence” throughout his treatment of the pop star as prosecutors neared the end of their involuntary manslaughter case against the physician.

Lawyers representing Michael Jackson’s doctor have abandoned the defence theory that the pop megastar swallowed the drug that killed him.

Mark Steinberg, the agent of former world number one Tiger Woods, has joined Excel Sports Management.

Germany’s BND intelligence agency knew as early as 1952 that Adolf Eichmann was hiding in Buenos Aires, a report said.

North Korea warned today that US-South Korean co-operation could bring nuclear war to the region.

AFTER one of the biggest sponsorship fallouts in the history of sport, Tiger Woods is close to signing a new global endorsement.

TIGER WOODS has yet to utter a word, and yet the boundaries he has set for today’s announcement are already under attack by some members of the media. On the other hand, many fans just don’t care – and want the world’s No. 1 golfer back on the greens.

ERNIE ELS has criticised Tiger Woods for choosing today to break his silence and face the world.

Tiger Woods will tomorrow speak publicly for the first time since his bizarre car accident, beginning what his agent called “the process of making amends” for the sex scandal that sent him into hiding for three months.

South Korea has said a North Korean patrol boat entered its waters around their disputed maritime border but backed off after nearly an hour following repeated warnings.

A US fertility clinic is to begin offering custom-designed babies to would-be parents.

An ultraconservative society recently rehabilitated by Pope Benedict XVI silenced one of its bishops today and distanced itself from his claim that no Jews were gassed during the Second World War.

TIGER WOODS made $122.7 million (€83 million) in on-course earnings and endorsements last year and will break the $1 billion (€680m) mark by 2010, according to an annual study by Golf Digest magazine.

A woman accused of turning her friend into a paraplegic by pulling her out of a wrecked car “like a rag doll” may not be protected by California’s Good Samaritan law, a court has ruled.

A man wielding a cordless power saw in each hand rampaged through a New York subway station today, slicing the chest of a postal worker.

The presence of Tiger Woods and Ernie Els has made the Dubai Desert Classic an important event in the race for places in Europe’s Ryder Cup team.

Tiger Woods was out and about in Dubai today, doing the sort of things that the world’s most famous sportsmen are asked to do, much though he might have liked a day to recover from a marathon journey across 12 time zones,

Mark Sage on the US election campaign trail

Heavyweight US broker Merrill Lynch thinks the euro could break past parity against the dollar this summer but remains confident superior US productivity growth should limit the dollar's downside by the year-end.